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Modern Django Web Development: With Channels, DRF, GraphQL, and React

Name: Modern Django Web Development: With Channels, DRF, GraphQL, and React
Author: Malhar Lathkar
ISBN: 9798868814723

by Malhar Lathkar

July 2025

Intermediate to advanced

441 pages

6h 44m

English

Apress

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Modern Django Web Development
Introduction
How This Book Is Arranged
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
1. Django Basics
IntroductionFundamentals of HTTPHTTP MethodsPOST MethodGET MethodPUT MethodDELETE MethodCGIWSGIwsgiref PackageWhat Is a Web Framework?MVC vs. MVTAsynchronous Processingasyncio ModuleASGIOverview of DjangoBatteries IncludedUtility AppsScalabilityDocumentation and SupportSummary
2. Django: First Steps
Install DjangoInstallation on UbuntuInstallation on WindowsSet Up the Django ProjectDjango AppAdd an AppDefine ViewsDefine urlpatternsUpdate URLCONFPath ParametersServing Web PagesAdmin SiteSummary
3. Django ORM
DB-APIWhat Is ORM?Define a ModelDatabase ConfigurationRun MigrationsRegister Model with Admin SiteDjango Admin ShellAdd ObjectsRetrievalSearchUpdating the ObjectsModel Field TypesCharFieldIntegerFieldFloatFieldBooleanFieldDateFieldTypes of RelationshipsOne-to-One RelationshipOne-to-Many RelationshipMany-to-Many RelationshipSummary
4. Django Templates
Template Objectrender( ) FunctionTemplate ContextTemplate Tags{% if %} Tag{% for %} TagForm TemplatesHTML FormForm ClassModelFormClass-Based ViewGeneric ViewsTemplateViewCreateViewUpdateViewDeleteViewDetailViewListViewStatic FilesImage As Static AssetCSS and JavaScriptTemplate Inheritance{% include %} Tag{% block %} Tag{% extends %} TagSummary

5. Django: Using Databases
SQLAlchemy ORMEngineTable in SQLAlchemy CoreModelSessionAlembicAdvent of NOSQL DatabasesMongoDBInstallationLocal DeploymentAtlasMongoDB ShellCompassPyMongoInsert DocumentRetrievalMongoEngineDocument ClassConnectionDynamicDocumentDjongoSummary
6. Advanced Django
Messages FrameworkCookiesSessionsActivating MessagingStorage BackendsAdding MessagesFetching MessagesAuthenticationLogin and LogoutNew User@login_required( )Security FeaturesCSRFXSSSQL Injectionasync ViewsAdapter Functionsasync QuerySetsReusable AppsDjango Debug ToolbarSummary
7. REST API with Django
What Is API?REST ArchitectureUniform InterfaceStatelessnessClient-ServerCacheabilityLayered SystemCode on DemandSerializationDjango REST FrameworkDRF – Get StartedSerializer ClassSerializer FieldsSerializer MethodsModelSerializerHyperlinkedModelSerializerDRF – Class-Based ViewsDRF – Generic ViewsViewSetsModelViewSetRoutersDRF – AuthenticationTokenAuthenticationAlternatives to DRFDjango NinjaSummary
8. GraphQL with Django
GraphQL vs. RESTGraphQL ArchitectureSchema Definition LanguageTypesQueriesMutationsSubscriptionsSchemaGraphQL and PythonStrawberryStrawberry-DjangoGrapheneGraphene-DjangoSummary
9. WebSockets with Django
WebSocket ProtocolWebSocket and PythonDjango ChannelsConsumersRoutingChannel LayersSingle ChannelGroupsWebSocket Client TemplateLogin/LogoutSummary
10. ReactJS with Django
ReactJSReact AppReact Developer ToolsWhat Is Promise?useState HookuseEffect HookAxiosDRF BackendCross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)Axios FrontendTicketList ComponentAddTicket ComponentApolloGraphene-Django BackendApollo FrontendBookList ComponentReact for WebSocketSummary
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M. LathkarModern Django Web Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1472-3_5

5. Django: Using Databases

Malhar Lathkar¹

As we learned earlier in this book, Django’s ORM API is one of its standout features with which the database interaction becomes much more Pythonic, rather than having to execute raw SQL queries. However, it is too tightly coupled with the other features of the Django framework – such as the migrations, the admin interface, and more. There are other ORM libraries for Python, notably SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, etc., which are far more flexible. SQLAlchemy offers support for a wider range of databases and ...

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